Raz Segal

Israeli historian Raz Segalרז סגלSegal in 2023Academic backgroundEducationBar-Ilan University (BA in economics)Tel Aviv University (MA)Clark University (PhD)Academic workDisciplineHistorianInstitutionsStockton UniversityMain interestsGenocide studies Raz Segal (Hebrew: רז סגל) is an Israeli and American historian residing in the United States, who is Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University, where he also directs the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program. He has written multiple books about the Holocaust in Carpathian Ruthenia, based on analysis of primary and secondary sources in Hebrew, English, German, Yiddish, and Hungarian. Positions In the context of the Gaza war, Segal has described Israel's complete blockade—which included the denial of water, food, power, and fuel to the civilian population of the Gaza Strip—as a "textbook case of genocide" and connected it to the Nakba, the expulsion of Palestinians during the establishment of Israel in 1948. According to Segal, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are actively engaged in three genocidal actions: acts of k